this is the only pie chart you will see all semester.
this is the only pie chart you will see all semester.
As your instructor, I recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic and the current state of our country has far reaching effects that are felt unevenly for different people based on their personal circumstances including (but not limited to):
My goal is to be as flexible as I can be with each student so that everyone can meet the learning objectives for the course despite the difficulties we face.
Lets take a minute to introduce ourselves.
What do you want to be able to do in 14 weeks that you can’t do today? (in regards to this class)
Data science is an industry buzzword and cliche
From wikipedia:
“Data science is an interdisciplinary field about processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data.
| Assignment | Percent |
|---|---|
| Weekly homework assignments - submitted on Blackboard | 40% |
| Practical Exam 1 | 12.5% |
| Practical Exam 2 | 12.5% |
| Original Analysis (due Dec 9th) | 15% |
| Critical Evaluation (due Nov 11th) | 10% |
| Participation in class | 10% |
Classes will be held in person
Classes will be recorded, and the recordings will be available for a limited time only (due to space constraints in storage).
Recordings are not for download and distribution.
Your primary study materials will be the lecture slides (available on course website) and your notes from class, not the recordings which are temporary.
These are especially important for breakout-groups, when I am not there all the time.
There are weekly homework assignments in this class.
These are where you will really learn to do data analysis. I will walk you through the concepts in class, but you will learn by doing.
Homework assignments will be uploaded to Blackboard, and are due by the beginning of class on their due date.
Note: First homework assignment is due on September 9th.
I am not a monster and this is a global pandemic, but in order for you to learn, you need to do these in a timely fashion, because concepts build on one another fast!
When you leave this course, I hope you are empowered to:
R is an open-source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
open-source means that anyone can look at the code to see how it works.

One of the top 10 most widely used programming languages in the world in 2018.

A rapidly growing system of user contributed packages.
Let’s check out the website then we will do the introduction to R
We are going to do an interactive tutorial that I wrote.
Download the folder at this link: link
Be sure you have installed the learnr package. Who needs help doing this?
We will spend about 40 minutes on the tutorial